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Juggling / Stewart Lawrence Sinclair.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: PracticesPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2023Description: xiii, 136 pages : illustrations ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781478016960
  • 1478016965
  • 9781478019602
  • 1478019603
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Cirque du Covid -- The three-body problem -- La Strada -- Historical arcs -- Isla Vista -- 441 -- Makeup -- Cascade -- Lodi -- Improvising -- Mardi Gras world -- Light-hearted humans -- Cirque du Kabul.
Summary: "In Juggling, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the 4,000 year history and practice of juggling as seen through his life as a juggler. Sinclair-who learned to juggle as a child and paid his way through college by busking-shares his experiences of taking up juggling after an episode of suicidal ideation, his time juggling on the streets and, ultimately, finding comfort in juggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, this is a book about loss and recovery. From his own juggling story to clowns braving military checkpoints in Bosnia and Rwanda to perform in refugee camps to contemporary avant-garde performances, Sinclair shows how the universal language of juggling provides joy as well as a respite from difficulties during hard times"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 793.87 S616 Available 33111010960199
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In Juggling , Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the four-thousand-year history and practice of juggling as seen through his life as a juggler. Sinclair--who learned to juggle as a child and paid his way through college by busking--shares his experiences of taking up juggling after an episode of suicidal ideation, his time juggling on the streets, and ultimately finding comfort in juggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, this is a book about loss and recovery. From his own juggling story to clowns braving military checkpoints in Bosnia and Rwanda to perform in refugee camps to contemporary avant-garde performances, Sinclair shows how the universal language of juggling provides joy as well as a respite from difficulties during hard times.

Includes bibliographical references.

Cirque du Covid -- The three-body problem -- La Strada -- Historical arcs -- Isla Vista -- 441 -- Makeup -- Cascade -- Lodi -- Improvising -- Mardi Gras world -- Light-hearted humans -- Cirque du Kabul.

"In Juggling, Stewart Lawrence Sinclair explores the 4,000 year history and practice of juggling as seen through his life as a juggler. Sinclair-who learned to juggle as a child and paid his way through college by busking-shares his experiences of taking up juggling after an episode of suicidal ideation, his time juggling on the streets and, ultimately, finding comfort in juggling during the COVID-19 pandemic. In many ways, this is a book about loss and recovery. From his own juggling story to clowns braving military checkpoints in Bosnia and Rwanda to perform in refugee camps to contemporary avant-garde performances, Sinclair shows how the universal language of juggling provides joy as well as a respite from difficulties during hard times"-- Provided by publisher.

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